Quick Start Guide

From WorldForgeWiki

This is a Guide to get you into Worldforge really Quickly

• Always remember: The WorldForge IRC

Contents 1 Play 2 Develop 2.1 Programmer 2.2 Artist 3 Host a World

Play

Download one of the clients, Sear or Ember and start playing.

If you are using openSUSE, see Suse Install Howto.

Develop

Programmer

• Test the client binaries
  • with Sear use the wfut you will find in its program folder to download the devel version, moving sear-media-0.6 into the new sear-devel-(insert os here) folder and run the file labelled sear (not the sear-bin binary).
• Test the Cyphesis autopackage
• Install (note that suse packages of the wf libraries are available here)
• Compile Cyphesis
  • Python
  • libgcrypt
  • Atlas-C++
  • Varconf
  • Mercator
  • Skstream
  • wfmath
  • terminfo or ncurses
  • readline
  • postgresql

• Compile Ember
  • Eris
  • DevIL
  • OpenAL
  • Zzip
  • FreeType2
  • Cg
  • CEGUI
  • OGRE
  • SDL
  • SigC++

• Compile Sear
  • LibModelFile
  • sage
  • SDL 1.2
  • SDL Image
  • LibSigC++
  • Cal3D
  • Lib3ds
  • Guichan

Artist

• Read the Media ToDo List
• Media design Wiki documents

Host a World

Install Cyphesis onto your server